"It seems all worlds of music - rock, blues, R&B, soul, hip-hop and others - are able to point to impromptu get-togethers as proud moments in their timelines, encounters that were recorded and created music of lasting impression. In the jazz tradition, there are a few, but none that has been revered for as long as Jazz at Massey Hall."

-- Ashley Kahn

#Rocks Quotes #Long Quotes #Hip Hop Quotes

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
“I'd like to say that people . . . people can change anything they want to. And that means everything in the world. Show me any country . . . and there'll be people in it just trying to take their humanity back into the center of the ring . . . . And follow that for a time. Y'know, think on that. Without people you're nothing.”
“Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.”
“You know the worst thing about oral sex ? The view.”
“Freud becomes one of the dramatis personae, in fact, as discoverer of the great and beautiful modern myth of psychoanalysis. By myth, I mean a poetic, dramatic expression of a hidden truth; and in placing this emphasis, I do not intend to put into question the scientific validity of psychoanalysis.”

Source : 1981 The White Hotel, author's note.
“I think poetry is best read to oneself.”
“It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases.”
“Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.”

Source : "With Grenfell Tower, we've seen what 'ripping up red tape' really looks like" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2017.

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